Oscar Wilde Quotes
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A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.
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No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.
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One should always be a little improbable.
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The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived.
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We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
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The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.
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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
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I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.
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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
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Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
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Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
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There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.
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Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman - or the want of it in the man.
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Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!
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Aestheticism is a search after the signs of the beautiful. It is the science of the beautiful through which men seek the correlation of the arts. It is, to speak more exactly, the search after the secret of life.
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I could never quite accustom myself to absinthe, but it suits my style so well.
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I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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Realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.
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Some people always know the price, but not the value.
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People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
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The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.